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Patient records stolen in cyber-attack on Australian healthcare provider (www.theguardian.com)
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[-] busted_Anoose@aussie.zone 1 points 21 hours ago

Ive been ruminating on the idea of having a phone pin number that you can set for people contacting you. make it a four digit number, say your doctors surgery you can set to 2345 and when they call you, they just dial your number and add the pin to the number and it will go straight through. You attach a name to the pin, when you are called you know its from the surgery. if you get a spam call from the surgery using that pin, you can call them and tell them their records have been compromised and set a new pin. All numbers that have been assigned are allowed to ring your phone and have it ring loud if you so wish.

this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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